EditorPlanNext

Plan for the upcoming release is here: EditorPlan69. This page serves as placeholder for items for future releases.

Contents 1 Features for future releases 1.1 View hierarchy 1.1.1 Word Wrap 1.1.2 Invisible characters 1.2 Rectangular tools 1.3 More Hints 1.3.1 From IDEA, Eclipse 1.4 CSL 1.5 JDK 7 features 1.5.1 Coin 1.5.2 JSR 308 1.5.3 Jigsaw (???) 1.5.3.1 Module project type 1.5.3.2 Platform manager changes 1.5.3.3 Library Manager 1.5.3.4 Debugger, Profiler 1.5.3.5 Dependency Viewer 1.6 OSGi bundles support 1.6.1 OSGi bundle project type 1.6.2 Platform manager changes 1.6.3 Library Manager 1.6.4 Debugger, Profiler 1.6.5 Dependency Viewer 1.7 More refactorings 1.7.1 Copy Clone Move 1.7.2 Performance 1.7.3 Hints from annotations 1.8 Indexing 1.9 Stabilize editor APIs 1.9.1 Make Parsing and Indexing API stable (??) 1.10 JNLP and WebStart improvements 1.11 PelMel (?) 1.12 Integrated search (???) 1.13 Code beautifier (reformat and fix imports on more files) 1.13.1 Organize imports (?) 1.14 Misc Features 1.15 Top Voted Enhancements 1.16 General Infrastructure Improvements 1.17 Usability Improvements 2 Quality Feedback

Features for future releases

View hierarchy

Issue 121357 New View Hierarchy (Mila 25)

Word Wrap

Issue 89894 Add word wrap for text files (Mila 10) --- top voted ENH.

Invisible characters

Issue 4619 Editor should allow you to view non-visible characters such as tabs, spaces, carriage returns, and EOF. (3rd top voted ENH). (Mila 5)

Rectangular tools

Issue 13857 Cutting/Copying vertical blocks of text: Rectangular Edit Tools (Vita 10)

More Hints

From IDEA, Eclipse

Internal Wiki

CSL

EditorPlanCSL

CSLRequirementsNB69

JDK 7 features

Work started in http://hg.netbeans.org/jdk7 with builds available here http://bertram.netbeans.org/hudson/job/jdk7/ . For more info see Java_EditorJDK7.

Coin

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/ http://wikis.sun.com/display/ProjectCoin/2009ProposalsTOC

JSR 308

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/type-annotations/ Seems to be implemented in the JDK7 code base (???)

Jigsaw (???)

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294 The status is currently unknown.

Module project type

Platform manager changes

Library Manager

Debugger, Profiler

Handled by the respective teams --- but almost no changes required there.

Dependency Viewer

From Maven.

OSGi bundles support

The main question here whether we want to support bundles without using Maven. If so the following would have to be implemented:

OSGi bundle project type

Platform manager changes

Library Manager

Debugger, Profiler

Handled by the respective teams --- but almost no changes required there.

Dependency Viewer

From Maven.

More refactorings

Batch Refactorings From IDEA, Eclipse

Replace Temp with Query

Extract Method Object

Introduce Parameter Object

Issue 148567 Invert Boolean

Issue 72059 Make Method Class Static

Issue 72060 Introduce Factory

Issue 57545 Inline Method/Variable

Issue 55762, Issue 56726 Generify

Copy Clone Move

Move: Issue 57767, Issue 91516, Issue 92904, Issue 154900 Issue 147849 depends on this

Copy: Issue 101216 Issue 100758 Beans Refactoring Integration

Issue 57715 Replace Method Code Duplicates

Issue 57545 Inline Method/Variable Improved Java Search

Performance

• Find Usages for methods (relates to Call Hierarchy too)
• Mimetype registration for actions and plugins

Hints from annotations

Java Source Code Processing Annotations (Honza L., Jarda) --- obsoleted by Jackpot 3.0

Indexing

done?

Stabilize editor APIs

Issue 130487 Provide replacements for API/SPIs from org.netbeans.editor (Mila,Vita)

Issue 130488 Provide better supports for particular editor API/SPIs (Mila,Vita)

(B) Issue 120357 Rework and stabilize Indentation API - this in particular means to (Vita 5)

• isolate old formatting API to a deprecated autoload module (in progress)
• cleanup GSF formatting related API
• improve the new API, documentation, usecases, etc.

(B) Issue 102406 Stop using and deprecate Syntax (Vita 10)

• get rid of Syntax based java indenter
• rewrite or make Marian Petras to lexerify properties module
• isolate all Syntax related classes to a deprecated autoload module

Make Parsing and Indexing API stable (??)

JNLP and WebStart improvements

Issue 181260 Do not add Class-Path attribute into applet jar

Issue 181261 Provide a way to mark JNLP jars as eager or lazy.

Issue 181262 Add "indexMetaInf" attribute into jar task

Issue 181263 Provide UI to manage certificates to sign the JNLP application

Issue 181264 Add more sophisticated customizer of VM options

Issue 181265 Add filter warnings possibility into the output window

PelMel (?)

http://kenai.com/projects/pelmel

• extended support for closure-like anonymous innerclasses (anonymous innerclasses with one method):
  • folding of the anonymous innerclass class into a closure-like format
  • code completion shows a closure-like entry when possible, that generates the appropriate anonymous innerclass
• folding of constructor and method type parameters

Integrated search (???)

We have many issues with Search dialogs (details) We should work on integration of those features: Find, Replace, Find in Projects, Replace in Projects, Find Usages

Code beautifier (reformat and fix imports on more files)

Organize imports (?)

Issue 122109 Optimize Imports

Misc Features

Issue 105927 Support for Class-Path attribute in manifest (Tomas 5)

Issue 46863 Issue 43601 Permit library names to contain spaces and rename (Tomas 7)

Issue 174506 Run File for any java file with main methods should accept command line parameters (Tomas 3)

Various fixes/improvements in indexing (eg. Issue 170521, Issue 177511, Issue 170939, Issue 176271, Issue 159756, Issue 170915, etc.) (Vita 10) (Tomas 5)

Issue 101843 Up-to-date status in error stripe (Lahoda 3)

Top Voted Enhancements

Paste Formatted improvements

Issue 122100 Analyze framework (tool for static analysis) (Honza P., Honza L.)

Issue 60941 Javadoc Formatter (Honza P. 7)

(E) Issue 152749 Scanning of sources and compiling should be removed (Scan On Demand) (Vita 5 (evaluation))

Issue 47507 Transitively required libraries not automatically added to runtime classpath

General Infrastructure Improvements

Issue 135492 Simplify Coloring Profiles creation (Vita)

Issue 177866 CSL SPI for allowing clients to register their own "navigator views"

Issue 170281 API for declaring item in Navigator to collapsed/expanded as default

Usability Improvements

Issue 166451 Strip trailing spaces on file save - add more customization

Issue 138794 - Redesign "Javadoc Index Search" GUI

Features on Save (reformat, fix imports, etc) (Mila)

Issue 157079 Keymap Panel UI improvements

Issue 164601 Expansions improvements

Quality Feedback

• Dusan

• Issue 74806 Code completion for method/variable/class names should offer used but undeclared identifiers
• Couple of simple changes in code completion:

• Issue 75503 Cross deprecated constructors in pop-up menu invoked by Ctrl-P
• Issue 80733 Ctrl-P should work for generics type parameters
• Issue 96008 Use simple name for inner classes
• Issue 112742 Simple return value for methods returning wildcard generic

• Honza L.
• Hanz
• Mila

• Issue 103467 Explicit control of UndoableEdit chunking
• Issue 86511 Create syntax coloring guide for Lexer
• Issue 122856 Eliminate non-read/write-locked use of TokenHierarchy's methods
• Issue 150197 Switch off Lexer's Token Hierarchy during formatting

• Vita
• Honza P.

• Max

• There was also an idea of hardcoding lists of the most common shortcut that are used by various OSes and to warn a user when they try to assign them to Netbeans actions.
• Issue 133145 - Surround with try-catch needs user options
• Issue 131873 - "add parameter to constructor" hint
• Issue 148751 - Provide change type hint when there are incompatible generic type
• Issue 145018 - Change return type hint!! Performance